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...Compared to the debates at the Security Council in New York," declared Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban, "this was a relatively civilized exchange of views." The Egyptian delegates seemed no less enthusiastic than Eban. "We have made our way," said a government spokesman, "through a minefield of difficulties...
Outraged that the Egyptian attack was launched on Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish Day of Atonement, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban called it "blasphemous." The Grand Sheik Abdel Halim Mahmoud, Egypt's highest religious authority, proclaimed the war a jihad, a holy war. "We are fighting as the early Moslems fought against the infidels," he declared in Cairo's Al Azhar mosque. "All the dead in battle are sure of paradise." In Saudi Arabia, the Interior Ministry urged its citizens to "destroy the enemies of religion...
...that would also create machinery for direct negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The diplomats recognized, of course, that no such resolution would be effective until the combatants were ready for it. Kissinger was kept closely informed of Israeli attitudes toward such a prospect by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who was in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly...
...tanks and missiles in the Middle East is matched by an equally angry war of words in the belligerent capitals and in New York City, where both sides have traded rhetorical blows at the United Nations. Last week TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont had separate interviews with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed El Zayyat. The questions put by Lamont to both diplomatic spokesmen were identical. The answers were alike only in their intransigence...
...Palestinian problem is even more difficult to contend with. The Israelis claim that permitting one and a half million Palestinians to return to an Israel with pre-June 1967 borders would dilute the predominantly Jewish character of the population. In his book My Country, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban notes that if Israel maintained her post-1967 borders until 1990, Arabs would constitute forty per cent of the total population. The Israelis will have to reach a compromise with the Arab element in their country. The abolition of the special military government which oversaw Arab affairs was a first step...